NICKRADIO

22/09/2023

And you may find yourself ... at the optometrist.
Talking Heads David Byrne

12/09/2023

Released 40 years ago today, David Bowie's No. 2 UK smash 'Modern Love' celebrated the great Little Richard:

The official music video for David Bowie - Modern Love. Taken from Bowie's 'Let's Dance' album released in 1983, which featured the singles Let's Dance, Chin...

01/09/2023

The Fixx were always defined by a sense of musical risk. "One Thing Leads to Another" was a Top 5 smash in 1983, and it transformed frontman Cy Curnin into an early fixture on MTV. But the Fixx released less successful, though actually more intriguing songs on either side of it – including "The Sign of Fire," a rockier single that went to No. 32. "That's what we enjoy – the exploring and experimenting with dynamics, really building tensions up, letting the thing go and parachute down a bit," Curnin later admitted. This frisky sense of adventure didn't help their career, but it made the Fixx far more compelling.

Music video by The Fixx performing The Sign Of Fire. (C) 2004 Geffen Records

29/08/2023

Elvis Costello wanted a hit. That is, until 40 years ago this month – when he got one:

Elvis Costello released 'Everyday I Write the Book,' his first U.S. Top 40 hit, in August 1983.

26/08/2023

😜

22/08/2023

😜 Pop

25/07/2023

20/07/2023

All this melting-with-you stuff was no metaphor. The last thing Modern English wanted to do, singer Robbie Gray once said, was compose another song where "boy meets girl, they go to the cinema and make love, and that's the end of it." So, they nuked everything.

Subscribe to 4AD here: http://bit.ly/4ADYouTubeThe official video for 'I Melt With You'. Get the whole album 'After The Snow' on 4AD: http://4ad.com/releases...

17/07/2023

Nils Lofgren wearing the jacket I gave him (which I wore on my first album cover) and playing James Honeyman Scott’s Zermatis guitar at the recent Bruce Springsteen show in Hyde Park.
Now, that’s what I call flying the flag. Nice one Nils! We love you!
XCH

13/07/2023

"If You're Blue," the first new music from Joan Jett and the Blackhearts since 2013's 'Unvarnished,' offers a timely reminder: She didn't put up with your s**t back in the day, and she's certainly not putting up with it now. "I make my own rules they don't teach in school," Jett reminds, "and that's what I live by." Guitarist Dougie Needles provides a perfect, prickly counterpoint, but make no mistake: Jett is centerstage. Long may she roar.

Official Audio for "If You're Blue” by Joan Jett & the BlackheartsListen to Joan Jett & the Blackhearts: https://JJatBH.lnk.to/streamYD Subscribe to the offi...

16/05/2023

The Cure's self-titled 2004 LP was supposed to be the beginning of a new era, as they signed a three-album deal with co-producer Ross Robinson’s upstart IAM label. But then Robert Smith disagreed with Robinson’s vision, and IAM collapsed. It’s probably no surprise then that the resulting tracks are some of the Cure’s loudest and most direct. But Robinson actually wanted a tight eight-song track listing that sunk to the bottom of Smith’s darkest despair, while Smith wanted to mix things up. In the end, Robinson exited with a homemade compact disc featuring his rejected running order.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupThe End Of The World · The CureThe Cure℗ 2004 Geffen Records Inc.Released on: 2004-06-29Producer, Studio Personn...

19/04/2023

🫠 Inch Nails

11/04/2023

Smiths Marr Official

23/03/2023

Cure

16/03/2023

Do "King of Pain" next! Police

14/03/2023

I'll be gooooooooone. -ha

04/03/2023

It's fair to say that without this desperately sad song, The Cure might never have happened. Robert Smith wrote it as an "utterly morose" 16 year old, cooling his heels on what should be the week's most exciting night. (For an idea of how bored he really was, the drip-drip-drip-dripping faucet that centers "10:15 Saturday Night" was absolutely real.) He created a Hammond-driven demo before the Cure made a crude studio pass at it, and Chris Parry was impressed enough to sign them to his just-founded label. "10:15 Saturday Night" ended up as the first song on the first Cure album, and remained a key setlist favorite for decades.

Provided to YouTube by Rhino/Elektra10:15 Saturday Night (2005 Remaster) · The CureThree Imaginary Boys℗ 1979 Elektra/Asylum RecordsRemastering Engineer: Ch...

18/02/2023

Crowded House always had a melancholy complexity that belied their own pop goals. Never was there so much to be melancholy or complex about, however, as in the years after co-founder Paul Hester's 2005 su***de. The purpled, impressionistic 'Intriguer' was their second release without him, and it found Crowded House turning like a flower, slowly, toward the light. You hear it as Nick Seymour's just-right fuzzy bass line drives "Saturday Sun," a song that recalls their heyday while adding a dash of Sonic Youth's grinding, brilliant 'The Eternal.' They were never going to be the same, but it wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

Saturday Sun is the first music video from Crowded House's new album, Intriguer. Hope you enjoy it.Directed by: Simon and Dominic Taylor

08/01/2023

Set a course for adventure!

06/01/2023

Exactly!

03/01/2023

🤪 .E.M.

30/12/2022

The Tony Danza on the right is not having it.

28/12/2022

Damn. Youth

25/12/2022

, indeed. 😃

Fair enough! .E.M.

06/12/2022

🤪 Smiths

04/12/2022

20, 20, 24 hours to goooooooo.

02/12/2022

I'll show myself out. .E.M.

02/12/2022

Elvis Costello has described 2022's 'The Boy Named If' as a coming-of-age song cycle. No such exploration is complete without a song delving into the bewildering pain of first-love heartbreak. "I shed a single tear for my predicament," Costello sang on "Magnificent Hurt." Accordingly, you'd expect it all to unfold like a slow, sad trip to the bottom of a brown bottle. Instead, Costello's throwback musical construction – long-time collaborator Steve Nieve surely fractured a phalange or two at that organ – recalled a certain Angry Young Man. This sound just happens when they're together. "It's not a style you can put a name on necessarily," Costello told the Current, "but it's an attitude." Oh, "Magnificent Hurt" comes off as all attitude – even if it's only masking an eggshell fragility. And what's more reflective of adolescence than that?

The official music video for “Magnificent Hurt” from Elvis Costello & The Imposters’ upcoming album ‘The Boy Named If’, coming January 14, 2022. The new sing...

27/11/2022

Science! Loeb Official

25/11/2022

🍕 Mode

25/11/2022

Every. Time.

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Tom Club

23/11/2022

You bring me closer to golf. Inch Nails

22/11/2022

The reason early fans rallied around R.E.M.'s debut can be found right there in the name: A murmur causes people to pull in close, to intently focus, to study for the smallest of clues. Not many did, not nearly as many as soon would. But for those who somehow scored a copy of 'Murmur,' its whispered meanings became personalized, something far more specific than the sweeping statements made by the typical MTV-era band. Instead, R.E.M. moved like ghosts from a different, weirder time, offering only enigmatic, often indecipherable words amid jangles and hard-snapping rhythms. Bar by bar, college-radio spin by spin, they took the gospel of 'Murmur' to ever-widening circles of fans. It took a while, but R.E.M. emerged like cover-image kudzu from the fading trends of synth-pop and New Romantics – and then choked them off.

Provided to YouTube by Universal Music GroupPilgrimage · R.E.M.Murmur℗ 1983 I.R.S Records Inc.Released on: 1983-01-01Producer: Mitch EasterProducer: Don A. D...

21/11/2022

Truth.
Inch Nails Astley

19/11/2022

🤘 Jett and the Blackhearts

17/11/2022

OK, now this is stuck in my head.

"Tale as old as time, song as old as rhyme ..."
Fighters

13/11/2022

😅 .E.M.

11/11/2022

So wrong.

08/11/2022

Whoops.

06/11/2022

I still believe!